Copy-holder.



G. C. WILSON.

com HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 20. 1913.

Patented Sept. 8, 1914.

TORI/EVS GROVER CLEVELAND WILSON, or LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY.

COPY-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

4Patented Sept. 8, 1914.

Application ined August 2o, 1913. serial No. 785,656.

o all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GROVER C. WILSON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Lexington, in the county of Fayette and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and Improved Copy-Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to devices for holding a copy on typewriters or other like machmes, and is more particularly intended for use on the Stenotype.

It is a design of my invention to provide a copy holder whereby the copy will be held in the most natural position in front of the key board of a machine.

It is a further design of the invention to provide a device of the indicated character which may be readily collapsed into a small compass when not required for use and which may be quickly set up in position for use.

The invention will be particularly eX- plained in the specific description following.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this speciication, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved copy holder showing the same in position for use; and Fig. 2 is a plan View of the device in collapsed form.

The device is illustrated in connection with a Stenotype machine indicated by the letter A, said machine being provided with pins a on the top thereof which ordinarily are used in winding on new ribbons. It is to be understood, however, that the device may be supported on any other suitable base. In the illustrated form' the device includes side standards 10 having hollow lower ends or sockets 11 to receive the pins a. At the upper end a cross bar 12 unites the standards, the bar being formed in folding sections pivoted at their outer ends as at 12a to the standards and pivoted to each other between their ends at 12b, the one section of the cross bar being formed with clip 13 of known form to engage the companion section.

In connection with the standards copy supports 14 are provided which are suspended by hanger bars 15, being pivoted to the latter as at 16, and the hanger bars being in turn pivoted att-heir Aupper ends as at 17 to the standards. The pivots 16 extend through bracket forks 18 on the copyhold ing arms 14" and the" Ipivots 17 extend through similar forked brackets 19 on the standards 10. The pivotal connection of the arms 14 is between the ends thereof, and at the rear end each arm has an upturned fork 21 to permit the arm to pass beneath downwardly disposed shoulders 2() on the standards. The outer ends 22 of the arms 14 are upturned to hold the note book.

With the described construction, when the device is set up the copy holding arms 14 will be disposed horizontally, the hanger bars 15 inclining upwardly and rearwardly from the arms to the connection to the standards, and it will thus be seen that the weight of the note book on the forward end of the arms will tend to press the rear end of the arms upwardly against the shoulders 2O so that the arms will be maintained in the proper horizontal position and positively engaged with the standards.

When the device is not required for use it may be removed from the machine and the several members folded on their respective pivots, as specified, into the position indicated in Fig. 2. In the latter figure it will be noted that the arms 14 are swung against the under side of the hanger bars 15, but obviously said arms may be folded downwardly against the upper sides of the hanger bars, in which event the members 22 will pass at each side of the hanger bars instead Of the members 21, both members being forked.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to Secure by Letters Patent is z- 1. A collapsible copy holder comprising standards, a cross bar formed of sections pivoted to each other and to the standards, copy holding arms adapted to engage at one end with the standards, and hanger bars pivotally connected with the copy holding arms between the ends of the latter and pivotally connected at their upper ends with the standards.

2. In a copy holder, standards, copy holding arms, hanger bars pivotally connected at their upper ends with the standards and pivotally connected at their lower ends with the copy holding arms between the ends of the latter, there being co-acting members on the standards and Aon r"the adjafcentfend'sf-of the copy hoiding'arms to form an interengagement between the standards. and arms.

3. In a copy holder, standards,`a o'ldable cross bar uniting the standards, hanger bars pivotally connected at their upper endsl to the standards, and.. copy holding arms Vpivf otally connected between their ends 'withthe lower ends of the hanger bars, theends of the said arms being upturned and forked and the standards; lhaving downwardly dis'- copies of this pat'nt'm kbe obtained"l for Wa'shin posed shoulders y:for 4lenga'gingth'esaid arms at one end.

In testimony whereofl have signed my name to this specification in the presence of l5 two subscribing witnesses.

I GROVER CLEVELAND WILSON.

i Witnesses:

CHESTER ADDWYER, HARRY W. MOORES.

five cents each; by addressing ytie Commissioner of I'atents.

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